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FOR SIXTH SUCCESSIVE NIGHT R.A.F. BLASTS COLOGNE & OTHER TARGETS. DAMAGE DONE IN DAYLIGHT SWEEP. LONDON, October 16. For the sixth night in succession the R.A.F. attacked objectives in Western Germany. Cologne was again picked out for special attention. Fighters carried out a sweep over Holland, Northern France and the Channel. An anti-aircraft ship was attacked and a goods train and petrol store were left in flames. A 1 South African pilot machine-gunned a 3,000-ton merchant ship under repair. One British plane was lost and one enemy machine was destroyed. An enemy bomber was shot down off the English coast. FIGHTER EXPLOITS LAND AND SEA TARGETS. ENEMY PLANE SHOT DOWN. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.0 a.m.) RUGBY, October 16. Fighter Command aircraft have been on patrol today over Holland, Northern France and the Channel. Ships, a petrol store and oil tank wagons were attacked. One enemy aircraft was destroyed. One of our fighters is missing.
The Air Ministry News Service adds: “Two pilots of the Eagle Squadron found a goods train in Northern France and set it on fire with bullets. Then one shot down a low-flying Henschel 126 (German Army co-operation type). Another Eagle pilot gunned two oil wagons at a railway station. Mixed forces of twelve-gun and fourgun cannon Hurricanes flew low over the Dutch coast. They attacked a petrol store, leaving it in flames a hundred feet high. A South African pilot noticed a 3,000-ton ship being repaired and dived down, riddling the hull with holes. One Free French pilot shot up a searchlight post and another silenced a gun that was firing at him. South of Flushing, a motor-boat was set on fire and on the way home a R.A.F. pilot attacked two anti-aircraft ships. On one of the ships the swastika flag was shot from the masthead.”
BAD WEATHER AIR MINISTRY REPORT. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.15 a.m.) RUGBY, October 16. An Air Ministry communique states: “Aircraft of the Bomber Command were over Western Germany last night. There is no improvement in the weather, but objectives in the Cologne area 'were attacked. Bombs also were dropped on docks at Boulogne. “Yesterday afternoon Hudsons of the Coastal Command bombed and mach-ine-gunned docks and shipping at Esjberg. “Three Bomber Command planes are missing."
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 October 1941, Page 5
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